We finally have numbers to support what you might have already guessed:
Pokémon GO is the biggest mobile game in U.S. history.
Shooting to the top of the app store on the day it was released, within 24 hours Pokémon GO beat out indie hit Slither.io and Supercell’s heavily promoted blockbuster Clash Royale to become the biggest game of 2016, as measured by daily active users.
And that’s not all. Within three days of its release, Pokémon GO attracted more users than Twitter, and rose to the top of the App Store revenue charts, earning millions of dollars a day for its publisher, Niantic.
So what’s next? At its current rate of growth,
Pokémon GO is on track to pass Snapchat within a couple of days on Android.
Plus, as unbelievable as it sounds,
Pokémon GO Android could surpass Google Maps itself as the largest user of Alphabet’s mapping data.
